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Show Electric Lines and Motor Bus Work Together Th fart (hat he may rr.ld hloks from a car line Is not causing t? commuter as much inconvenience as formerly. Electric railways In thilr desire to hetter serve pntrons arc Installing In-stalling motor buses for the concn-lence concn-lence of riders living In sections not adjacent to car lines and many a commuter now finds It possible to step from his porch Into a waiting motor bus and be whirled away to tho nearest transfer point on an electric elec-tric line. Electric railways are rapidly turn-lug turn-lug to the motor bus es an economical economi-cal mean for extending service and better serving the public Numerous well known traction companies have added motor bus equipment In recent months and Indications are the electric elec-tric lines ultimately will become largo users In tho gasolino carrier Railways Rail-ways in a number of cities have pu -chased buses for the establishing of feeder lines and Initial experiments have proved so successful that many roads after giving the bus a thorough trial have decided to increase their bus equipment The bus offers an excellent cross-town cross-town transportation medium and i.s far less poitly than equipment necessary neces-sary for the operation of electric car-;. The Milwaukee Electric Kallw , Light company Is a large User of buses The company haa eighteen White bus I In aervlco and nine more on order which will be put on the road wlihin the next few weeks. no , |